DESCRIPTION

VG Screen Saver is a literate/literary screen saver for people who cherish the written word.
It has been written as a labor of love to celebrate great writings of the world,
and intentionally contains no flashy non-textual graphics that would distract from the text
itself. When first installed, the default quotes database (file VGScrSvr.MD3) is essentially empty of quotes—however, the user may either

Add quotes or other text of his/her own to the installed copy of VGScrSvr.MD3, or

Download and use the full VG Quotes Database (i.e., VGQuotes.MD3, see instructions below).

VG Screen Saver displays these "quotes" (or other textual material
of your choice) in a variety of routines, fonts, font sizes, and colors.
Quotes may be quite long—they may be up to about 32,000 characters each.
For comparison, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is about 15,402 characters long.
The user may add to, edit, or delete any quotes in the quotes database (see below).

VG Screen Saver has been developed in Visual Basic 6 and Access
97.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
AND MINOR PECULIARITIES

Operating System

VG Screen Saver was originally designed and tested in Windows NT
4.0, and runs successfully in that operating system. However, starting
with version 5.0, it also runs satisfactorily in Windows XP (the minor exception
being that occassionally it may not
capture keystrokes properly and termination of the screen saver requires moving the
mouse). The current version probably runs in Windows 2000 but has not been
specifically tested in that OS or in more recent versions of Windows.

Screen Resolution

VG Screen Saver prefers a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768 but will run at lower
resolutions.

INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND UPGRADING

PREPARING FOR UN-INSTALLATION PRIOR TO UPGRADING TO A NEW VERSION

If you are reinstalling VG Screen Saver and have made
modifications to the quotes database (VGScrSvr.MD3) that you wish to retain
instead of using the (empty) version of the quotes database that will be
installed, do the following:

(1) Rename your current copy of VGScrSvr.MD3 to
VGScrSvr.KEEP
(2) Install the latest version of VG Screen Saver as described above
(3) Delete the new copy of VGScrSvr.MD3 and rename VGScrSvr.KEEP back to
VGScrSvr.MD3.

After taking the above steps if applicable, follow the
instructions for UN-INSTALLATION (below).

INSTALLATION

Uninstall any previous version of VG Screen Saver that has
been installed first (See UN-INSTALLATION above).

Place VGScrSvr.EXE (a self-extracting ZIP archive file) in
an empty temporary directory. Run VGScrSvr.EXE to decompress (extract) the
files it contains to the same directory.

Select and run Setup.exe to install the screen saver support
files to the final permanent destination directory of your choice.
(You should not choose your windows system directory for this permanent
destination, or the directory into which you have decompressed the
installation files.) After successfully running Setup.exe, you may
delete all the files that were added to the temporary directory.

Be sure that the full path and filename for the quotes
database file VGScrSvr.MD3 is present and points to this file.

Be sure that the full path and filename for the
Workgroup Information File VGScrSvr.MDW is present and points to this
file.

Test VG Screen Saver program with "Preview"
and adjust settings with Settings further as desired.

See below about substituting the full quotes database for
Screen Saver use.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE VG SCREEN SAVER
AND OTHER COMMENTS

Read the opening screen while the screen saver is running for
additional information on HotKeys and other features available.

Special HotKeys

You may also press F1 for a summary of
the many hot-keys available while the screen saver is displaying quotes. Here
are the available hotkeys:

F1

Show the available HotKeys (this list)

Space

Start New Quote

Up Arrow

Slow Down Temporarily (this quote only)

Shift-Up Arrow

Slow Down (until screen saver exits)

Down Arrow

Speed Up Temporarily (this quote only)

Shift-Down Arrow

Speed Up (until screen saver exits)

Ctrl

Pause (Freeze Display)

C

Configure VG Screen Saver

N

User may specify Numeric QuoteID and optionally, (after a comma)
the routine to display

P

Display Previous quote

R

Restart Current Quote

T

Show Title, Author, QuoteID, and Font Face
Press Omit This Font to prevent future display of the current font face.

Esc or Alt

Exit Screen Saver

The screen saver intentionally does not terminate by any
key press except <Esc> or <Alt>. However, any mouse movement
or mouse click will terminate it. This is to allow you to restart a quote, show
the quote title, etc.

Editing Quotes in MS Access

You may modify, delete, or
add to the quotes in the VG Screen Saver quotes database VGScrSvr.MD3 by opening
VGSSEdit.MD3 in MS Access 97 or later version of MS Access (don't convert this
file to a later Access version or modify its structure in any way). Using
VGSSEdit.MD3 allows all the searching, filtering, and querying capability
inherent in MS Access and is therefore preferred if you have MS Access.

Editing Quotes otherwise

If you do not have MS Access,
you still have some editing capability of the quotes database using
VGSSView.exe. See the separate file VGSSView-Readme.TXT for more
information on VGSSView.exe. Searching capability is much more limited in this
program.

Doing Backup While VG Screen Saver is Running

If the VG
Screen Saver is running when you backup your files, say to a tape drive, your
backup program will report that it could not backup one or two files ending in
.tmp or .ldb. These are only temporary files used solely by the VG Screen Saver
and there is no harm in having these excluded from the backup set. On occasion,
a backup program will also report that it cannot backup the Workgroup
Information File VGScrSvr.MDW. This file is never changed by VG Screen Saver and
contains no user-customizable information.

USING THE FULL VG QUOTES DATABASE
(VGQuotes.MD3)

The full VG Quotes Database VGQuotes.MD3 is a separately
downloadable and independent file which can optionally be used with the VG
Screen Saver—it is not part of the VG Screen Saver distribution package. This
Quotes Database contains over 1100 aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, phrases,
quotations, poems, speeches, noble and ignoble sentiments, prose selections, and
other influential or noteworthy texts from our intellectual, literary,
philosophical, political, historical, religious, and scientific heritage. The
emphasis is on older citations, partly due to copyright restrictions as well as
the personal tastes of the developer and Internet availability.

Citations contained in the quotes database VGQuotes.MD3 are
believed to have expired copyrights or to fall within allowable "fair
use" limits. In some cases, the copyright status is not known to me and
there is therefore a possibility of unintentional inclusion of copyrighted
material. If you have responsibility for copyrighted material which you believe
to have been inappropriately included or quoted at excessive length in the
quotes database, please send notice to the address above and the citation in
question will be modified or removed. The full VG Quotes Database VGQuotes.MD3
is made freely available without charge and is not for commercial use. It is not
to be redistributed for profit. Many of its quotes have been compiled from the
public domain and through the generosity of other Internet sources. To use
VGQuotes.MD3 as the quotes database for VG Screen Saver, you may do the
following:

(1) Download vgquotes.exe from the mcgoodwin.net
website.

(2) Run this self-extracting archive file to extract
VGQuotes.MD3 to a temporary directory.

(3) Rename this copy of VGQuotes.MD3 that you just extracted
to VGScrSvr.MD3

(4) Delete the old copy of VGScrSvr.MD3 installed during
initial VG Screen Saver program setup

(5) Copy the newly renamed copy of VGScrSvr.MD3 to the
subdirectory where the VG Screen Saver application was originally installed.

Recommended File For Use With The VG Screen Saver:

VG SCREEN SAVER EXPIRATION

The current version of the screen saver program no longer has an expiration date, beginning with version 6.0.

COPYRIGHT AND REDISTRIBUTION

VG Screen Saver is copyrighted 1997-2010 by Michael McGoodwin. It is freeware—the user is welcome to use it without cost but may not charge
to redistribute it.
You may not distribute any component of VG Screen Saver without distributing the entire installation package.
You may not alter VGScrSvr.SCR in any way and must acknowledge the origin of the program and provide all of its components including this file
if you distribute it. Suggestions and constructive comments would also be appreciated and
can be sent to my email address listed on my web site.

Page www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/readme_vgscrsvr.html
Created by Michael McGoodwin
Last updated 26 June 2014